ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,100, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Relay station installation position calculation device, installation position calculation method, and installation position calculation program" was invented by Riku Omiya (Musashino, Japan), Masashi Iwabuchi (Musashino, Japan), Tomoaki Ogawa (Musashino, Japan) and Yasushi Takatori (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An installation position calculation device of a relay station according to an embodiment includes: an identification circuitry configured to identify an installed station candidate point at which an LOS region from the relay station is maximized i...